A little paperback book, published in the 70’s, has moved across the ocean a couple of times and around the continent of North America.. In the 70’s the ideas seemed note worthy, rather like the book of Vermont Folk Medicine. So how relevant at the ideas today? A couple for you to decide:
- add whipped egg white to whipped creame to make it less caloric and stretch father.
- when cooking brussel sprouts, add a thick crust of bread to the pan and the kitchen won’t smell
- to keep sliced bread fresh, store it in the romertopf, rinse the lid once a month.
- wet-on-the-inside-rainboots are quickly dry by stuffing them with full with crumpled newspaper.
- a great number of ideas on how to wash windows. No country washes their windows with such vigor and regularity.
- take a telephone book, punch a hole in the corner, thread a string through the hole, hang it on a hook. Use in place of paper towels!
- want sharp scissors, cut through aluminum foil a few times*
- rather than using traditional cord for your garden washing line, use a link chain. it will never stretch out of shape and you can hang clothes on hangers in the links.
*i paused writing to try this one. Not having a foil roll, I resurrected from the recycle bag a few empty tea-light cups and cut them up. It does indeed sharpen the scissors.